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What is the First Amendment issue involving Apple's view on consumer privacy and security? Apple was ordered to create encryption software to over write the iPhone operating system of the San Bernardino Ca gunmen. In the end Apple filed to vacate; the case wasn't litigated. This is unprecedented legal argument. Will need to cite similar cases and references.

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I don't see any obvious First Amendment issue other than the argument that the government is trying to make the company speak in a certain way. The encryption features on the phone are intended to protect the privacy of the user, and that can be seen as a first amendment issue.

But this seems like more of a Fourth Amendment and Thirteenth Amendment issue, and an issue as to the meaning to the All Writs Act. The government has no right to impose involuntary servitude on the company, as prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment allows searches only by government officials. The All Writs Act can only refer to writs that were part of the common law at the time the Constitution was ratified.